FRIDAY

419eater.com
Does a disinherited prince want you to help him to regain his millions? ‘Scam baiters’ love to tease the fraudsters

Conning the conners
. . . and some 419 Eaters have a little innocent fun making alleged would-be scammers act out the Dead Parrot sketch

Going underground
Subway maps of the world: browse them and long for the day Dublin has one

THURSDAY

www.ebizarre.com
Bore your pals to tears in the pub with this selection of trivia and wacky facts

www.singshot.com/SimsLily
Modern pop is gibberish? Well, only if you listen to these versions of Lily Allen’s Smile, as recorded by The Sims

www.jimmyteenstv.com
Teens with cancer tell their stories on video. It’s cheerier than you think.

WEDNESDAY

www.loudlit.org
Free audio books of classic novels easily downloadable to your iPod

www.conservapedia.com
America’s right-wingers have taken offence at the lack of bias in Wikipedia, so here’s their own slant on things

buylesscrap.org
This is the antidote to Bono et al’s crusade to help the poor by buying consumer goods

TUESDAY

www.eurekalert.org
Science news hot off the presses (or, er, the internet)

www.rte.ie/radio
Podcasts now available of new RTE show about preparing for the Leaving Cert exams

www.awards.ie/blogawards
The results are in ... here are the best Irish bloggers of 2007

MONDAY

www.notcoming.com
Intriguing online magazine dedicated to unearthing movie gems overlooked at the box office but available on DVD

pspandme.ie
Self-consciously hip site offering art, movies, photos and music for download to your PSP

www.geocaching.com
Got a GPS receiver and feeling bored? Try these little treasure hunts

FRIDAY

www.woot.com
Woot sells cool stuff cheap, one item per day, if you miss it it’s gone. Great marketing tool if you’re launching products

Wisdom of a King
Stephen King’s Entertainment Weekly articles on everything from Anna Nicole to creating a Hallowe’en mood

Beer fling
Little building project for the weekend: the automatic beer-launching refrigerator

THURSDAY

snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/
Every day we get those magic emails about tattooists, babies and Nostradamus ... Snopes tells us if they’re true

bestrejectedadvertising.com
You think ads are bad? You should see the ones that didn’t make it to our screens

Chicken police
Don’t mess with my chook-chook or you could be up before the beak